US Patent Issued to Ciena on July 14 for "Reversing direction of packet transmission in a network having a ring topology" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,866, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Reversing direction of packet transmission in a network having a ring topology" was invented by Pranav Mehta (San Jose, Calif.), Muthurajah Sivabalan (Ottawa) and Sami Boutros (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a node in a network having a ring topology includes the step of discovering a first peer node arranged in a first direction around the ring with respect to the node. The method further includes the step of discovering a second peer node arranged in a second direction around the ring with respect to the node. Upon determ...